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AdmittedPiet Mondrian · 1929 (original date partly obliterated; mistakenly repainted 1925 by Mondrian)
You're looking at Composition No. two, with Red and Blue — a painting by Mondrian, nineteen twenty-nine (original date partly obliterated; mistakenly repainted nineteen twenty-five by Mondrian). It's oil on canvas, about 40 by 32 centimeters.
Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 15 7/8 x 12 5/8" (40.3 x 32.1 cm) · Credit Gift of Philip Johnson
Hanging beside it in Gallery 512: Concrete 61, Composition in White, Black, and Red
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: 2x-2, Untitled, Vertical and Diagonal Planes, Composition, Head of a Woman, Neoconcrete Relief
More by Piet Mondrian here: Composition with Red and Blue, Tableau no. 2 / Composition no. V, Composition with Color Planes 5, Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray, Composition in White, Black, and Red, Composition with Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Gray
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